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Since 2014 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the New York World's Fair (in Flushing Meadows Park), I thought I'd share a 'photo-op' of the only other major grounds of a World's Fair I had the opportunity to visit in my lifetime...
It was the summer of 1971; I had just finished one grueling month of summer camp in upstate New York, and Mom and Dad decided to take my brother Glenn and I further upstate to Villa Nueva (a bungalow community), not too far away from Lake Champlain.
Following the 'R and R' we had there, we continued to travel northward, until we'd crossed the American/Canadian border, and proceeded to Montreal, to check out the "Man and his World" exhibition - at the site of the former World's Fair, known as Expo '67, located on Île Sainte-Hélène and Île Notre-Dame.
I was seventeen at the time (and Glenn had just turned fourteen) when we visited the former site of (what was truly considered) the best World's Fair of the 20th Century. We took in as many sites as time (and money) would allow. The highlight for me was riding the monorail around the island (surrounded by the St. Lawrence Seaway).
Naturally, I had brought along my Kodak Instamatic 104 camera, to take as many pictures as possible. My mother took this snapshot of me, with the American pavilion in the background. Said pavilion was a geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller; and today, it's an environmental science museum known as the Montreal Biosphere. (Maybe, instead of 'Throwback Thursday', I should've posted it two days earlier, on Earth Day!)
It was the summer of 1971; I had just finished one grueling month of summer camp in upstate New York, and Mom and Dad decided to take my brother Glenn and I further upstate to Villa Nueva (a bungalow community), not too far away from Lake Champlain.
Following the 'R and R' we had there, we continued to travel northward, until we'd crossed the American/Canadian border, and proceeded to Montreal, to check out the "Man and his World" exhibition - at the site of the former World's Fair, known as Expo '67, located on Île Sainte-Hélène and Île Notre-Dame.
I was seventeen at the time (and Glenn had just turned fourteen) when we visited the former site of (what was truly considered) the best World's Fair of the 20th Century. We took in as many sites as time (and money) would allow. The highlight for me was riding the monorail around the island (surrounded by the St. Lawrence Seaway).
Naturally, I had brought along my Kodak Instamatic 104 camera, to take as many pictures as possible. My mother took this snapshot of me, with the American pavilion in the background. Said pavilion was a geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller; and today, it's an environmental science museum known as the Montreal Biosphere. (Maybe, instead of 'Throwback Thursday', I should've posted it two days earlier, on Earth Day!)
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I had the chance of going to Man And His World several times, mostly in 1978 and 1979. Our family would buy summer passes and spend several days there during my dad's vacation and on weekends. We'd picnic on nearby tables and visit the pavillions. I saw the 360 degree movie once.
It's also there in 1979 that I saw the first version of the rock-a-fire explosion animatronic show under the name "Wolf Pack 5". I'll eventually upload a couple of photos of that show I took that summer.
It's also there in 1979 that I saw the first version of the rock-a-fire explosion animatronic show under the name "Wolf Pack 5". I'll eventually upload a couple of photos of that show I took that summer.
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